A review by bookswkate
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi

2.0

I reeeeallly wanted to finish this book and like it. My problem wasn’t the misunderstandings of the Nigerian Civil War, but the writing itself. First 50 pages at least (that’s all I read) you are just dropped into action that reads like a video game (in a bad way). You aren’t given much explanation for the sci-fi elements, you are sort of just expected to know what they are and how they function. If I hadn’t played overwatch 2 I wouldn’t know what the hell a mech was. Like I said, it just feels like your reading an action sequence in a video game, and I imagined it was going to be like that the whole way through, so I just stopped torturing myself. I really wanted to enjoy this book, but I couldn’t.